[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > rms and I have been batting around the --version output stuff. > Here's what we seem to be settling on: > > sort (GNU coreutils) 6.4 > Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > rms wanted to have some extra words in there. He wrote: > Remember, our goal is NOT merely to give experts information. > We need to be looking for opportunities to spread the basic > ideas of free software. Never focus on the former in a way > that ignores the latter. > > So the new text above has the machine parsable license id (after > License:), but also a one-line expansion of its meaning. And a few > words about what free software means. And the shorter warranty line. > > If any comments, let me know before we inscribe it into standards.texi ...
I suppose lib/version.c in gnulib should be modified too? /Simon
